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Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Dental Extraction Before Cardiac Operation

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975%2813%2902348-5/abstract

Author(s)

Mark M. Smith, David W. Barbara, William J. Mauermann, Christopher F. Viozzi, Joseph A. Dearani, Kendra J. Grim

The utility of dental extraction for infection prior to planned cardiac surgery is unkown. The authors evaluated the risk of dental extraction in a group of 205 patients for whom elective cardiac surgery was planned. 8% experienced major morbidity after dental extraction, 3% died prior to cardiac surgery, and 3% died following cardiac surgery.